Content summary: Content summary: Dan York joins Shel as guest co-host while Neville copes with demands during his first week in his new job; our interview with Steve Rubel on lifestreaming and other matters is set for Friday; Dan reports that a lot of good content is coming out of the Inbound Marketing Summit, which is taking place today and Friday; Dan talks about his marketing and communications responsibilities at Voxeo and how he uses the concept he has dubbed ‘the attention wave’; Sallie Goetsch reports on the death of podcasting; Media Monitoring Minute; News That Fits: the FTC issues rules for affiliate bloggers in the U.S., companies continue to invest in social media but 54% of them block their own employees, a company owns up to unethical behaviour, a deep dive into Twitter statistics including the behaviours that promote retweeting; music from Matthew Ebel; and more.

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For Immediate Release: The Hobson & Holtz Report, for October 8, 2009: A 66-minute podcast recorded live from Concord, California, and Keene, New Hampshire, USA.

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So, until Monday October 12…

(Cross-posted from For Immediate Release, Shel’s and my podcast blog.)